VOL. XXVII HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 191 C No. 3G First National Bank New Business This is the time of year to consider and plan the cam paign in all lines of industry. The officers of this strong bank are always glad to assist in your plans and convince you of the advantages of a savings or checking account with us. A. D. MOE President E. Bank Advertisement No. 78 The following amounts have been placed with us by our customers to be in f vested in first mortgages on improved real , estate in this vicinity: $3000.00 $3000.00 $2500.00 $2500.00 $1000.00 $1000.00 $1000.00 $1000.00 $1000.00 $ 800.00 We can also use 15000.00 East Fork Irrigation District Bonds at ninety-four and accrued interest. BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Steamers "Dalles City" and "Stranger" Leave Portland 7 a. m., arrives The Dalles 6:30 p. m., Sunday, Monday, Tues day, A'ednesdav, Thursday (not Friday) and Saturday. Arrives up at Hood River alout 4 :20 p. m. Leaves The Dalles 7 a. to., arrives Portland 6 :30 p. m. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (not Saturday) Arrives down at Hood River about 9:'J0 a. ni. Wednesday of each week is set aside as "Stock Yard Day" and then the Steamer Dalles City will take live stock for delivery to Portland Union Stock Yards. This Bervice will permit the individual to ship as few animals as de sired and get benefit of low freight rates. For further information phone 4532 R. ROBERTS. Agent, The Regular Line LADIES ATTENTION! Special Introductory Sale As a means of introducing our Ladies Tailoring Department, we will make to your measure $40.00 Suits for - - - $35.00 $45.00 Suits for - - ' - 37.50 $50.00 Suits for 40.00 $55.00 Suits for - - - 45.00 $60.00 Suits for - - - 50.00 These suits will be tailored in our own shop by skilled tailoia, thereby enabling us to give you a perfect fit and satisfaction. DALE & MEYER 108 Third Street Tailors to Men Tailors to Women AT THE GLACIER OFFICE O. BLANCHAR Cashier $800.00 $800.00 $500.00 $500.'"00 $400.00 Keep a Photographic Diary with an Autographic Kodak Such a pictorial record of the year tells the whole story accurately, conveniently and is a pleasure in the keeping. The Kodak to tell the story and the Kodak album to keep it are featured in our photographic depart. Let us show you. ' Kresse Drug Go. THE REXALL STORE Victor Victrolas and Records Eastman Kodaks and Supplies Come in and Hear the February Records Seeds Burpee's best by test. Burbank's wonders. Our stock will be most complete ever offered. Our prices same as you would pay the gro wer packets, pounds, bushel or by sack. Catalogues Leaflets, Free Furniture Persistent care has se cured for us a most complete assortment of new goods at prices surprising low. This consignment includes Lino leum, Oil Cloth, Carpets, Rugs, Curtains, Shades, etc. Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co. Your Credit Is Good. You may pay cash and save 5 per cent The Only Place to get Accurate Abstracts of Land in Hood River County is at ' the office of the Hood River Abstract Company Insurance, Conveyancing, Surety Bonds Seasonable "Good Things to Eat" H-0 Oats for Breakfast Wheathearts 20c, 2 for 35c 25c and 50c PetUjohn's Breakfast Food 20c, 2 for 35c Roman Meal 25c . Mother's Oats 25c and 40c Cream Oats in 9 pound sacks 40c Peacock Buckwheat Flour Olympic Pancake Flour 25 cents 25c and 50c Pure Eastern Buckwheat Flour 55c sack Log Cabin Cane & Maple Syrup Vermont Maid Maple Syrup 25c, 50c, 85c, $1.50 35c, 65c, $1.00, $2.00 Star Grocery ' Perigo & Son .'GOOD THINGS TO EAT" RUbbCF StfllTipS The Historian of tL Household The Biographer of thtBaby Automobiles Are you tired after a ride? Franklin owners ride to rest Does your gasoline bill seem high? Franklin's average 32.08 miles to gallon. How is your costs? Franklin's ateritge oer 800 miles on gallon. You think the year's re pair high? Franklin repair shops loose money, .You cannot afford not to own a Franklin. Hardware The advancing market finds our stock so complete that we can fill your every want at saving prices. STOVES have gone up, but we will continue our standard prices a $79 home comfort range for $50. AT THE GLACIER OFFICE ANNUAL INSTI- TUTEJS HELD LNE GROVE PEOPLE PARTICIPATE Third Mid-Winter Chautauqua Draws Large Crowds Despite Inclement Weather and is Big Success The members of the fine Grove Methodist Episcopal church have adopt ed a plan whereby they may pass pleasantly and profitably some of the afternoons and long evenings of mid winter. During the period of cold weather the orchardist enjoys more leisure moments tftan at any other season of the year, and three wintera ago the fruitgrowers and church-goers of Pine Grove conceived the idea that a kind of wintertime Chautauqua would be a benefiting diversion. I he success of the first institute was so marked that the event has been made annual, and the third Annual Pine Grove Com munity Institute was brought to an end with religious services Sunday evening. But one should not gather the idea that the institute, because it is held under the auspices of the church, is entirely for the spiritual well being of the. Pine Grove orchardists. Problems of every activity of the progressive community are touched upon. The Grange, the orchardist, the school, the Sunday school and the church, all are granted places on the program. And while the church is one of Methodist denominatiabn, no narrowness prevails In religious belief of Pine Grove folk. It is the purpose of the annual Institute to broaden the viewpoint of the.rural residents. The institute has in fact outgrown the bounds of the Pine Grove district, and despite the snow-covered earth and unusually cold weather sleigh-loads of the residents of other rural sections d the city were in daily attendance. the lectures were a drawing card to the women as well as the men of the section. The first meeting was held Friday afternoon at the Grange hall under the auspices of the Pina Grove Grange. Iruman Butler delivered an address on the activities of the Growers' Council during the past year. C. A. Reed pre sided. At the close of the meeting A. Mason urged the apple men to make a study of by-products. He declared that it would be safe to predict that in the future the pulp, now going to waste at the local vinegar factory would be dried and used as food for hogs. Ire chief speaker at Friday night s session was Prof. J. F. Brumbaugh, of the Oregon Agricultural College, on Python tegs the Law of Habit. His lecture was preceded by a violin erio by Geo. A. Wuest. Up. Saturday morning Prof. Brum baugh talked to the ranchera on "Rural Laws," and a comet solo was rendered by A. J. Graff. I he program for Saturday was as follows: Songs by the school children ;, address, "The Essentials of Life," Dr. Carl G. Poney, president of Willamette University; vocal solo, by Mrs. M. Thrane; and an address. "Thinking polks, H. U. Perry, superintendent of Sunday schools of The Dallies dis trict of the Methodist church. Sunday was devoted to a musical pro gram and religious services. The pro gram for the morning was as follows: Sunday school in charge of W. V. Keck; instrumental solo, Francis Van nier; violin deut, Misses Leila Radford and Maud Fernn; institute sermon; H. O. Perry ; and sung by the male quartet of the church. A feature ot the program, "rtutn, the Gleaner," was postponed for two weeks, when the following will partici pate in the cantata: Misses Leila Radford, Luella Hunt, Esther Schmidt, Mrs. J. E. Andrews, Mrs. N. - K. rer- tig, Mrs. J. U. Jarvis, b. b. House, vV. C. Keck, R. H. Waugh. W. Wellb and M. FulsgrafT. The closing address was delivered by Mr. Perry. A community basket luncheon was enjoyed on Saturday noon. Prof. N. E. Fertig was chairman of the Satur day afternoon session, and on Sunday evening, Russell A. McCully was chair man. VIRGINIA APPLE MAN PRAISES FREDRICY (By C. Purcell McCue, of Virginia, in American Fruit Grower) omcanied by a friend, I went to railroad office in Portland, Oregon, inauire about the trip 4o Hood River. The agent gave us the infor mation asked for, and also his card to the railroad agent at Hood River, Mr H. Fredncy, who, by the way, was tvpical of the people we met in the west a "booster" for the country and its resources. On our arrival at Hood River we went to Mr. Fredricy, and he was most courteous. He phoned for an automo bile for us, and my friend and I went to get dinner at the hotel, with the understanding that be would accom pany us on our trip if he could get away. When we were almost through dinner, Mr. Fredricy came up to say that he would go with us, and, as he knew the countrv and practically all of the eiowers. his presence made it much mnra interesting for US. We took a drive up the left band side Of the valley, then across, ana down the right band side, lbe land on which the orchards are planted is con siderably above the Columbia river about 200 feet and the drive up to this elevation was on, good roads. The first thing that attracted our attention waa the fact that some of the orchards were in red clover, and when we asked bow this happened, we were told that they did not always clean cultivate their land. There were hoes in aome of the orchards, and Mr, Fredricv said to the driver, "That is something you never saw a few years ,, ago. After tbia we came to a big eorooina tion cold storage and packing house. We met the manager, and be was very kind, abowed us all over the plant and answered a good many Questions for The plant was an? air-cooled cold storage, where the apples were run in from the orchard as they came from the trees. They packed as many as they could as they were orougni n, and then sorted the others as an or chard run, and kept on packing them, as the manager said, ometimea into January. There were about 86 Japs at work sorting and packing, and two big ma-' chines doing the siting, with a few Americans aa foremen; bo nailers, markers, etc. These Japs were fur nished a bunk-bouse, and paid $2.50 per day if they could pack as many as 100 boxes per day. Their pay was scaled down if they packed less. Everyone waa busy and everything was running aa smoothly as possible. None but perfect apples were put in the boxes. This requisite of good packing is much easier to obtain there than with us. The Japs who do the packing have absolutely no interest in ihe number of apples they discard. They are told what to do and they do it with an exactness that is remarkable. Ihe result ia a fine pack which we do not see in the East as often as we could wish. Now I feel that I must aay what struck me most about western people not as individuala but as a whole, they all aaid they had a wonderful country and wonderful apples. They believed it, talked it. and boosted their country on all occasions. You will see this by the way this railroad man was glad to show us over the valley, tell us ol the advantages, and never mention one dis advantage that the country had. He was not interested in the orchards except for what they furnished his railroad to ship. JACOB MERLE HON ORED BY FELLOWS Drawing bis inspiration, aa he savs from Fred Dundee, of Portland, for whom he was formerly employed, Jacob uerie, oi me garage firm of r oust a Merle, has returned from Portland fully decided to equip in Hood River one of the most up to date garages of the state, in au days be and Mr. roust will have installed cylinder grinding machines and other apparatus that will keep automobile repair business at home. "Fred Dundee," says Mr. Merle, deserves unstinted praise for what he has done in setting a pace for automo bile repair and garage men of the state. When I was with Mr. Dnudee he was working but 10 men. Todav he employs 200, and his work is of such an ecxellent nature that be is drawing work irom territory that has always been patronizing the east." Both Mr. Foust and Mr. Merle were in Portland last week. The former spent the first of the week at the auto mobile show and the latter was there the later part of the week. Mr. Merle attended the organization meeting of a u 10 mot He repair and garage men, and was honored by election to the execu tive board. He was the lucky guest at the banquet of rubber men. drawing a $35 electric born. Mr. Merle has al ways been known to his friendB as Lucky Jake." Foust & Merle are local handlers of the Studebaker automobile. On or about March 15 they will receive a car load of this popular make of automo bile. The shipment will include fours. sixes and one delivery wagon. - One of the features of the Studebaker is that the salesman give to each purchaser a service card, guaranteeing inspection and care of the machine for one year s time. These cards are later sent to other dealers, and naturally each local agency is keen on making the best pos sible service record. We have received information," says Mr. Merle, "that an advance may be expected in the prices of all auto mobiles. There will possibly be a small increase in the price in the Stud ebaker. The gist of our advice in the face of such information will be this: "If you are going to buy a car, do so at once. If you purchase now, you will get your machine at the prevailing price of today" NOTED HUMORIST WILL LECTURE HERE Dr. Samuel Mc Chord Crothers. the noted author and lecturer of Harvard University, who will be in Portland in the near future, will deliver a lecture at the Congregational church on the evening of Friday, February 11. The lecture will be given under the aus pices of the Hood River schools. Dr. Crothers is to the world of liter ature what Maud Powell is to the world of music. While he is a deep thinker bis expressions are couched in terms that any man can understand. Pres. W. T. Foster, of Reed College, who ia inHtrumental in hrinuinc the es sayist to the west, declares that be considers him one of the best lecturers in the United States. Dr. Crothers is probably the foremost literary genius who ever will have visited or spoken in Hood River. The reserved seat ticket sale will begin on Friday, .Febru ary 4, at Clarke's drug store. In view of the fact that so noted a man is to be here so soon, it is of in terest to know that the public library has three of bis best known books also several of bis shorter works in the magazines. Ihe list follows: Books "Among Friends." "The Christmas Fire," "The Pardoner'a Wal let." Magazines "Great Reward." Out look ; "Contemporaneousness of Rome," Atlantic: "Meditations on Votes for Women," Atlantic; "Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord, Alantic; Unac customed Ears of Europe," Atlantic; "Protective Coloring 10 Education, Atlantic. CLUB MINSTRELS DATE LOOMING jffhe Commercial Club minstrels, for which the male talent of the city is now making the greatest of prepared' nets, will be held on the evening of Monday, February 21. The jinx will be given at 'Heilbronner ball, and while the show heretofore has been for mem bers only, the coming minstrles will be open to all. including children. Some excellent specialty numbers are promised. Wilmer Sieg will be middle man. Other notablea going over their joke books for the points of mirth are D. G. Cruiksbank, W. B. Arens, Jack M. Culbertson and D. H. Drewery These black-faced artisti will be end men. Admission of 50 cents will be eharged, No seats will be reserved. Go to Law, The Cleaner. U ELECTION INTER EST SIMMERS RE-ELECTIONS WILL BE SOUGHT Shoemaker Will Again Make Race All the Offices Except Two Will Be Filled While no aspirant to office has as yet made formal tiling of his intentions the local political pot is beginning to siml mer and prospective candidates are beginning to jockey for a start in the preliminary races of the May primar ies. Successors to all county ollicers must be elected except in the case of County Judge E. E. Stanton and As sessor Jasper Wickham both of whom will serve two more years. The term of Circuit Judge W. L. Bradshaw will expire at the end of this year. While no expression has been made by Judge Bradshaw himself, hm friends here are of the opinion that ho will be a candidate to succeed himself. Judge Bradshaw is one of the most popular circuit judges in Oregon and has held office for four consecutive terms. County Clerk Kent Shoemaker aged 24 and the youngest clerk in the taste, will be a candidate to succeed himself. Mr. Shoemaker has been an efficient and faithful officer and has won a wide spread esteem and popularity. 1 nomas F. Johnson, too, will be a candidate for re-election to the office of sheriff. While Mr. Johnson is at the present time in a sate of Bomewhat in decision, be says that he will enter the race if the people desire him. He is now finishing his third term of office and has grown stronger with the peo ple .of the county each year. At the election in 1914 he received the largest number of votes of any candidate. The terms of incumbents of the fol lowing offices will expire with the end of this year. Prof. C. D. Thompson, county school superintendent; Consta ble E. S. dinger and Justice of the Peace A. C. Buck. Mr. dinger will be a candidate for re-election. Judge Buck, however, says that he does not expect to again seek office. Prof. Thompson, who received notice of his appointment as county agricul turist of Josephine county Monday, will tender his resignation. Prof. L. F. Henderson, Mrs. Mary Frazier, B. L. Murphy and L. B. Gibson are being mentioned for the place. Terms of the county surveyor and county treasurer will expire this year. Both offices are now vacant. Mrs. F. A. Bishop is mentioned as the logi cal successor to her husband, and it is probable that she will receive appoint ment. DISLOYALTY WILL BE DISCIPLINED A step forward In the cooperative or ganization of sales agencies seems probable in all Northwestern fruit sec tions the coming year. While disci plining unloyal members of sales agencies has been mentioned in the past and in caseg has even been incor porated in contracts between associa tions and members, rules have never been enforced. However, from the present prevailing sentiment and the expressions of local sales agency offi cials, the Apple Growers Association will probably begin the marketing of next season's crop with its affiliated members bound to the organization by a contract, which will provide that the member, in cae he violates the con tract and ships independently or through some other agency, will auto matically be expelled. Ihe hrst actual steps toward the disciplining of assoication members were tBken last week, when the 25 local unit organizations of the Yakima Valley fruit Association adopted by unanimous vote of their trustees to summarily drop from their membership list unloyal growers. ' Idaho and Wenachehe are taking the eame point," says Wilmer Sieg, sales manager of the local association. and will undoubtedly take a similar stand. The greatest drawback to the Northwestern apple industry is the in dependent shipper. Organizations base their calculations on tonnage furnished acording to contracts, and when the tonnage of those who withdraw to ship through other sources is deducted from the total counted on in the first instance, the ability of a sales agency to guage its marketing machinery is cut short proportionately. With the representa tive shipping concerns bringingbout these new rulings that will protect the loyal member, independent shippers in the future will have no chance. "A contract is a valid document and must be protected, and while organiza tions do not want to cause or create trouble they must do something to pro tect the shipper who is loyal. '1 his can only be done by the elimination of the unloyal grower. Ihe action of the Yakima association is one in the right direction; it will create stability, 'the movement has the support of tne gov ernment committee that has been working in the Northwest on an inves tigation of marketing conditions and who have asserted that they found the biggest proportion of damage to mar kets caused by growers who try to ship and work independently." SKI AND SLED ENTHUSIASTS BOLD With the long continued cold weather and the .heavy snow blanket covering the bills and valleys, local people have been growing bolder and bolder in their search for winter sports with an in creasing thrill. For the first time the East Side range was climbed Saturday afternoon, Hans Hoerlein, a ski enthu siast, scaling the bald top, where he says the wind was blowing a gale that cut like a razor. Mr. Hoerlein re turned down the 30 per cent grade at a terrific speed. Dr. C. H. Jenkina was the first to pilot a bob-sled down the tortuous way of the East Side grade. Dr. Jenkins, an enthusiastic devotee of coasting, made the long run successfully Sunday morning. We are closing out our circulating li brary of over 50U books. 25c each or 0 books for a $1. blocom & Cautitjld Co,